Sentences with phrase «whale hunting for»

Read HSI's statement on votes conducted at the International Whaling Commission meeting rejecting the South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary proposal, and approving a humpback whale hunt for St. Vincent and the Grenadine.

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For example, we should stop «hunting for sport or furs; farming minks, foxes and other animals for their fur; capturing wild animals (often after shooting their mothers) and imprisoning them in small cages for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 2For example, we should stop «hunting for sport or furs; farming minks, foxes and other animals for their fur; capturing wild animals (often after shooting their mothers) and imprisoning them in small cages for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 2for sport or furs; farming minks, foxes and other animals for their fur; capturing wild animals (often after shooting their mothers) and imprisoning them in small cages for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 2for their fur; capturing wild animals (often after shooting their mothers) and imprisoning them in small cages for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 2for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 2for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 23).

Japan has failed to sell three - quarters of its 2011 whale - meat harvest, a loss of appetite for cetacean blubber that may spell the end of the hunt in the world's largest whaling nation.

This is a wonderful place known for its ship building, whale hunting tradition and fine eateries.

Known as the «right» kind of whales for hunting, the last North Pacific right whale in Canadian waters was seen (and killed) by whalers in 1951.

Under normal circumstances, groups of two or three whales tend to dive in synchrony across tens of square kilometers to hunt for food.

Indeed demand for whale meat was so low in June that the Norwegian Fishermen's Sales Organisation temporarily put a halt to all whale hunts.

Past studies of individuals near Hawaii and Costa Rica have found that false killer whales are social animals that can maintain friendships — swimming, hunting and cavorting — for years.

Dr Longrich explained: «This find was unusual because it's a dinosaur from marine rocks — it's a bit like hunting for fossil whales, and finding a fossil lion.

It also defeated a US bid to remove restrictions on bobcat pelts, as well as Japanese efforts to engineer support for dolphin and whale hunts.

Climate change and the resulting loss of sea ice during the summer have opened new hunting territory for the killer whales in the eastern Canadian Arctic, but scientists knew very little about these animals until they tapped into the traditional knowledge of Inuit hunters who shared unique firsthand descriptions of orca hunting tactics.

Though Japan abandoned its Antarctic hunt for this year, it immediately vowed to retool its research program with an eye to resuming it as early as the 2015 - 2016 season, and eventually to resume commercial whaling as well.

These prey species move in different ways, meaning that the whales can't just use one hunting strategy for all their targets.

The study also refutes claims by Norwegian and Japanese whale hunters that hunting is necessary for scientific reasons, Clark argues: «This research shows that you can study these animals better alive than dead.»

This may mean whales are hunting for more surface - dwelling prey at those times or traveling, according to the researchers.

«The hunting of large whales is managed by the International Whaling Commission,» added Baker, who works out of OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Ore. «But there is no international or inter-governmental organization to set quotas or provide management advice for hunting small cetaceans.

That was also the case for two kinds of bats and toothed whales, a group that includes dolphins and certain whales, that have converged on a specialized hunting strategy called echolocation.

Currently, a trio of nations — Japan, Norway, and Iceland — continue to hunt, despite the ban, doing so through loopholes in the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, a 1946 treaty.

Unlike Norway, which admits its hunt is commercial, Japan maintains that it is hunting whales for «scientific research».

Now the trio has created a model to examine in more detail how a cap - and - trade market might impact whale populations and how the costs and benefits would change for people who want to hunt or conserve them.

For the foreseeable future, the battle over whales will continue to play out with unregulated hunts, dangerous zodiac chases, and freezers full of aging whale meat.

«Whale sharks are under threat from human impacts of hunting and ship strike and it makes it much easier to plan for conservation if we only have to deal with neighbouring countries in each region rather than localities spread across the entire Indian Ocean.»

Warmer temperatures make it easier for the whales to hunt because their prey is less likely to climb onto sea ice or hide below it to escape.

«The present study is the first on apes to show by means of networking analysis that habits travel along paths of close relationships,» he says, adding that a similar idea was shown not long ago for humpback whale hunting techniques.

Catch - limit models have been run for several of the whale populations currently being hunted — such as the western North Pacific Bryde's whales and the North Atlantic common minke whales.

The team found that Cuvier's beaked whale dives to more than 1000 metres on average to hunt for the deep - sea...

Though likely an ancestor of modern baleen whales, gentle giants of today's seas this beast had monstrous teeth and huge eyes thought to have been good for hunting.

If you're an oceanographer who studies marine mammals, perhaps you'd go to sea on a ship with a good pair of binoculars and hunt for whales.

For roughly 100 years, sperm whales were hunted for the semi-waxy oil found in their heFor roughly 100 years, sperm whales were hunted for the semi-waxy oil found in their hefor the semi-waxy oil found in their head.

I believe another stopping point for this story is that the culture has moved beyond the acceptance of whaling as an honorable profession, to the point that I, and I assume others, was on Team Whale after witnessing a bloody hunt.

The live - action version of classic manga and anime Akira is one of those white whales that Hollywood — primarily Warner Bros. — has been hunting for years, burning through writers, casting choices and potential directors but never quite made it into production.

It starts the first chapter of Herman Melville's «Moby Dick» and introduces the reader to a sailor called Ishmael who narrates the obsessive quest of Captain Ahab and his hunt for the white whale who destroyed his ship and severed his leg.

Do you ever wonder if we are just shifting one problem for the next, the way energy needs were shifted from hunting whales to drilling for oil?

The MPAA rated Free Willy 3: The Rescue PG for thematic elements involving whale hunting and for brief mild language.

Nevertheless Klam does drop clues, including this crisp sentence: «This place had been known at one time or another for whale hunting, Portuguese immigrants, sand dunes, herring shoals, shipwrecks off the point, but also for a certain kind of seeker or desperate kook, Puritans, dropouts, communists, frazzled intellectuals, painters from New York, experimental - theater types, alcoholic fishermen, sailors stationed here between the wars, stubborn or demented individuals...

For example, if you're writing Moby Dick (no kidding), you can include expanded notes about the history of whaling, including maps of routes to now obsolete hunting grounds, period advertisements for whale oil lamps, and other real - life elements that expand the reader's experienFor example, if you're writing Moby Dick (no kidding), you can include expanded notes about the history of whaling, including maps of routes to now obsolete hunting grounds, period advertisements for whale oil lamps, and other real - life elements that expand the reader's experienfor whale oil lamps, and other real - life elements that expand the reader's experience.

Mercy Rathbone's father has been missing at sea for seven years, after he went hunting the last whale seen off Connecticut's shore.

As bonnieb says, the buffalo hunt was done with respect and honor for the animal and that is as it should be and as it also is during the whale hunt.

Like the Crow who feel the same way about their right to hunt the buffalo, the whale hunts cause conflicting emotions for me.

A hunt for a giant ship - killing white whale.

The Atlantic study has not found the reason for the poor reproduction of the right whale since a hunting ban went into effect 70 years ago.

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Circles of bubbles would appear from below — the whales do this to cause fish to congregate for easier hunting — followed by breach after breach of the whales as they scooped up schools of tiny fish in their mouths.

The 4 killer whales we'd followed for 7.5 miles must have taken off running the second they heard this distant group of killer whales beginning their hunt (sound travels extremely well in water).

I'm in Belize on the hunt for whale sharks — but I'm not watching them from the boat, I'm plunging into the water to scuba dive and snorkel with the world's largest fish.

In my hunt for the Northern Lights, my first stop was Iceland; a fascinating country with many beautiful natural sights such as the cascading Gullfoss Waterfalls, the rift between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates, the spurting Great Geysir, Humpback, Minke and Blue whales in the bay of Reykjavik, and geothermal pools and spas such as the Blue Lagoon.

A second, shorter, and less intensive hunt occurred for gray whales in the eastern North Pacific.

Several of the islands were used by whalers in the 1930s to hunt for sperm whales.

Haro Strait is where the orca whales most frequently hunt and travel in the San Juan Island as they spend the summer months foraging for salmon in Washington.

The Makah Indians, whose reservation is on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, may soon resume hunting gray whales for the first time in 70 years.